Went thru $120 in Kennedy Halves today...

ElectricEye

(3) 40%er's ~ one 1966, 2 1968's, one with a filled mint mark

LucyBop

You poor soul.....

What mercyless Judge sentenced you to this awful sentence?

DanC

<< <i>What mercyless Judge sentenced you to this awful sentence? >>


Toad-ette!

ElectricEye

twas the ghost of Russ...wait a minute, he's not dead yet!

uofa1285

Well, glad you found some items but were you hoping for some 64s and the occassional Frankie?

Doug

DanC

Russ has "left the building"...

Please check in after 8:00 a.m. PST tomorrow.

Cam40

More Heptoadette for me!!!

ElectricEye

a couple of frankies would have made my day, but I was happy just to find what I did ~ funny thing, the tellers at B of A were excited to see the coins go and told me that had plenty more where those came from ~ I turned two rolls into my bank and the teller slammed em down and said "I thought you were my friend" ~ she told me Wamu sends all 50 centers and sacs out of the branches...

cosmos66

Where did you get the rolls of coins?

uofa1285

Grassroots collecting and treasure hunting...Good 4 You!

Doug

ElectricEye

went to Bank of America ~ a teller told me merchants bring em in and they get stuck with em and they have no problem at all selling em to me, she even told me to check with the merchant tellers ~ Wamu never has any cause they send em back to the reserve when the have enough for a roll, except when I dump rolls on them after the search

ohbaby

ElectricEye,

keep that up and you will go blind!

I get dizzy after one roll!

Cam40

At my Washington Mutual I,ve been going in for boxes of cents.
Sometimes they ask ` What dio you do will all those pennies?`
I say I,m sorta of a coin collector and I like to go through them and pick the ones I like.
They roll there eyes basicly.
One teller gave me a look like, this poor guy must really be lonely. how sad.

BigE

I dropped off about 200 beat up Ikes at my local bank, and the tellers thought I was crazy, I think they thought they were silver---------BigE

wondercoin

I went through around 1200 SBA's, 400 Kennedy halves and close to 1,000 Lincoln cents today. Tired eyes comes with the territory

Wondercoin

P.S. I'll have a "midnight snack" of perhaps another 500 Lincolns when I watch Leno tonight

uofa1285

<< <i>I went through around 1200 SBA's, 400 Kennedy halves and close to 1,000 Lincoln cents today. Tired eyes comes with the territory

Wondercoin


And your results of your hunt were???

Doug

P.S. I'll have a "midnight snack" of perhaps another 500 Lincolns when I watch Leno tonight >>

fountainheadgold

count me in on this deal

TayTay

My bank had a grand total of 4 halves today. I just looked at 'em and gave 'em back

wondercoin

Doug: Frankly, my results were a fair number of coins in flips to be submitted at a later date. I have not had a great deal of success achieving MS67RD Lincolns of late. Grading success comes and goes and sometimes timing is everything. Sometimes it is simply better to "keep you powder dry" and wait for the ideal time to submit.

Wondercoin

Cam40

My bank had a grand total of 4 halves today. I just looked at 'em and gave 'em back

POW!! Right in the teller`s Frankies.

Sometimes it is simply better to "keep you powder dry" and wait for the ideal time to submit

..in other words,, nevermind what I picked, I,m not giving yall any ideas on getting a piece of MY action.

1957joe

Hey guys and girls,
Let me tell you that from experience, that looking through rolls of halfs DOES pay off. Two years ago I was on a quest and I found hundreds, of silver Kennedys, Franklins AND Walkers. NO LIE. My wife thought I was nuts untill she saw what I was finding. I'M STILL HOOKED, but I don't have the time I use to.
Also, I had some bad experiences with tellers when I turned in the unwanted ones but it was worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe

1957joe

PS congratulate me on moving up to "member" status

Senlathiel

I had just posted in another thread that a few months ago I had checked out $160 worth of Halves. I only found 1 40%er and it was in terrible condition. This was Central Bank.

Senlathiel

Lucy, I think I like your old "Winking Coin Lucy" gif better.

Steve355

Hi Electric Eye and Tay Tay,

A suggestion: go to Yahoo YP > select a town > banks > print the page > check the mapquest links
and make notes on the printout (ex- Jct Rt 123 and School St).

Perhaps a Sat morning visit to a few towns a bit out of the way (ie 20-40 miles from home). Bring lots
of cash; although you won't actually spend much (a few bucks gas and whatever halves you save).

Best to check the bank's webpage ; you can usually find the hours a given branch is open.

Also, if you happen to see a silver dime or quarter in the teller's coin trays, naturally ask for it, but you
might want to buy a few rolls from that teller.

Half Dollar hunting since 1991, so far 2,477 90% halves found (kept them all), roughly 10,000 40%
found (sold most to a local shop or on ebay).

Recent finds: 4 rolls, the tape was so old, it turned to dust as I opened them > 76 Walkers & 4 Barbers.
The 1940's Walkers were sliders ; one, a '43 was BU. About a dozen early Walkers, including an '18-S
and a '19-S, both in Fine. The Barbers (2-1898, 1909,1911) were G-VG. Appears that they were saved
near the end of WW2 (only a single '45, nothing later), and recently deposited at the bank.

Quite a find !!

Just last week, a teller had, in her tray, (5) 1992-S Columbus commems (clad).

Happy Hunting.....

Steve

Russ

<< <i>and the occassional Frankie? >>



Only if he hadn't eaten yet.

Russ, NCNE

fishcooker

Been getting nothing but 1971's and beat up 1990's JFK's lately..... and not many of those. Tellers are on to me and picking out the good stuff, I guess.

TayTay

A suggestion: go to Yahoo YP > select a town > banks > print the page > check the mapquest links

Steve, thanks for the suggestion. Please let me know which town to enter (i.e. yours)
Sounds like you've found something that works

atarian

i went though 190 in halves over the summer i got 13..50 in silver halves 1964-1969. one fo the coins was a 1942 half. thats all i got.

NoGvmnt

I went through $100 in rolled halves today, got about 35 - bicentennials, 2 - 98Ds that have unbelieveable cartwheels, 1 - 71D with no ticks but a light strike and 1 - 71D that has beautiful Gold-Red-Light Blue toning on both the obverse and reverse.

Jim

Steve355

I'm in the Boston area; as an unemployed professional, can only work the Monster Board, etc for so
long > once a week I'll do a day trip, usually on Thurs or Fri (the banks are usually open a couple of hours later).

When working, I'll do the Sat am trips (banks usually open 9-12); for now I'll do the longer trips,
sometimes 100-200 miles from home.

With the Red Sox disaster last night, didn't feel like any serious driving, stayed local, very few halves,
but one teller had $14 face.....with 6 Walkers (40s), 3 Franklins (51, 54,54D), and a 64, along with a few
40%. Running count of 2,487 90%.

A temp (to perm) job could come at any time; I'll probably have to take it. But if all's quiet....next
Thurs or Fri, I'll fire up the Accord and head out (weather permitting) ....

Steve

richbeat

It's a crapshoot what you'll get, but you have to keep looking. The odds are very good that you'll get at least one silver clad half per roll. Merchants frequently dump halves, SBA's and Sacs on banks when they come in to make their deposits. That's how I get a lot of mine. They will not use them for change. Most of the rest are brought in by individuals. The way the tellers react when they get halves dumped on them is at least "half" of the problem of why they don't circulate. The merchants not using them to make change makes up most of the other "half" of the problem. It is not painful, I assure you, to give them out. I do, and get very few complaints.

richbeat

I do not, however, give out the silver, silver clad or any varieties!

Bulldog

Electric Eye,

Why don't you put them back in circulation? Pay for small purchases with them. That way you will be getting different coins from the bank, insteadof the recycled ones?

Just a thought.

Bulldog